Police have identified a body found in the Waikato River this morning but will not release the name of the 38-year-old man until their family are all informed.

A 488ha South Waikato rural property sold at auction last week for $5.25 million, says PGG Wrightson Real Estate.

A day after the Government pushed new health and safety legislation through Parliament a sharemilker died in a quad bike accident on a Waikato property.

A young man who died in a crash in the Waikato last night was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

A person is dead after a quad bike accident on a farm in Waikato this morning.

Incident appears to have taken place in a car, parked under a bridge on the side of the road near the Maramarua Golf Club.

The owners of Waikato's controversial Waingaro Hot Pools could face the boot and a hefty repair bill if the Waikato District Council wins civil proceedings.

The stretch of road along State Highway 4, near Kopaki, has been closed after logging truck ran off the road, and lost its load.

The pigs died in a blaze at a piggery north of Ngaruawahia.

A man has been arrested after allegedly stealing a boat and leading police on a chase from rural Waikato over the Kaimai Ranges into Tauranga this morning.

An elderly man who went missing in Waikato last night has been found safe and well.

Two people were seriously injured after a crash in Waikato early this morning.

A search and rescue operation was launched yesterday after a boat was spotted doing circles on the Waikato River with no one on board but a dog.

A large slip has closed the road through the Awakino Gorge in the Waikato this morning.

The incident happened on State Highway 5 near Waiohotu Road and police said the road in the vicinity of the crash is now closed.

A Waikato man has lost his car and had his licence suspended after he was clocked travelling at 162km/h in Hamilton this morning.

Aucklanders are leaving in such numbers that half the house sales in the Waikato outside Hamilton and nearly a quarter in Tauranga are to those from the big city.

Emergency services have been called to the scene of the crash on State Highway 27 near Matamata.

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A girl who broke her jaw and needed more than 100 stitches after a horse kicked her in the face didn't even cry when she came to after the accident.

Traffic came to a halt on State Highway 1 this morning as Waikato police pursued a fleeing driver.

Waikato police have released the name of a motorcyclist killed on State Highway 1 south of Hamilton on Monday.

Next time you pass through Karangahake, trek the Hauraki Rail Trail or visit a farm.

Police say the motorcyclist died after a crash in Rotokauri, Hamilton.

Two crashes - one fatal - have closed Waikato roads overnight. A 30-year-old motorcyclist died on Baverstock Rd in Rotokauri in a crash in the early hours of the morning.

The man, in his early 50s, was airlifted to Waikato Hospital on Saturday in a critical condition, and is now in a serious condition in the hospital’s High Dependency Unit.

A Waikato rural policing review has had to consider how to deal with the influx of Aucklanders moving to the region.

A man is now in a stable condition in hospital after he was gored by a bull in Waikato yesterday.

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